Background

Toll is building two new vessels to replace their existing vessels that trade between Port Melbourne and Burnie. As part of terminal and ship upgrade Toll has invested in ship to shore power commonly termed "Cold Ironing" that is utilised throughout Europe and America but new to Australia.

Toll wanted assistance with switching instruction writing, assistance with risk review and training of marine engineers to operate HV (11kV) equipment to meet regulatory requirements.

Toll will bring world class efficiencies to its shipping terminals at Webb Dock and Burnie as part of its $311 million investment into long-term growth for the Bass Strait trade. The terminal upgrades, coupled with a new customer booking system, will deliver greater efficiency to the terminals’ management for the increased volumes of freight.

Our role

In order to assist Toll’s marine engineers to gain a solid understanding of the safe operating processes and procedures for their new ship to shore HV connection equipment, Thomson Bridge developed high voltage safe access procedures that were compliant with 2 state jurisdictions, training and mentoring, and switching instructions for energisation and maintenance.

To connect the substation to the network, Toll was dealing with Citipower and PowerCor on the Melbourne side and TasNetworks on Tasmanian side, which meant they had to understand the operating protocols in 2 different jurisdictions. The HV cable runs from ship to substation at port to recharge the ship's diesel engine.

We used mentoring and intuitive problem-solving processes with our highly experienced Subject Matter Experts to facilitate scenario based sessions to trouble shoot this new plant and equipment that had not been installed in Australia before.

Project Details

• Client: Toll Holdings
• Location: Victoria, Tasmania
• Industry: HV Operator training & consulting
• Our role: Develop High Voltage Safe Access procedures that was compliant with 2 state jurisdictions, Victoria and Tasmania, and switching instructions for energisation and  maintenance.
• Outcome: Assisted marine engineers to gain a solid understanding of the safe operating processes and procedures for their new ship to shore HV connection equipment.
• Resource: Learn more about ship to shore power by watchong this video Ship to Shore Power.